Dreams of new beginnings or great moments, particularly, on occasions of certain mathematical confluences have arisen throughout the few known centuries of man's brief existence.
Augustine's, City of God, Nostradamus' quatrains, the Mayan calendar, various so-called new religious and political movements as well as modern movie manufactured magic have all in some way left either temporary or indelible marks upon the human psyche that both motivate and mystify.
Sadly, on the human level, at least, it would appear that real insight into patterns, principles and guidelines for the purpose of possible better outcomes have remained elusive, despite various individual best efforts whether collectively co-opted or simply, cleverly marketed.
It is hard to be fully human while also being totally happy.
Perhaps it is impossible.
However, as even our animal cousins somehow know, instinctively, inherently, social interaction generates ever more interaction leading to creative adaptations that often astound as well as excite.
Some call such things "love" or even "God" while most organic organisms simply move along their excited way within the greater whole presently enveloping it.
Witness the history of our mammalian cousin, the large whales (cetaceans), as one example of intelligent design and/or creative adaptation gone both forward and backwards.
How to explain such apparently logical, yet epochal and monumental change, except that it happened?
Meanwhile, some say the challenges of adaptation (or "evolution") are so few these days that human beings have simply stopped "evolving" (or put another way: growing).
I hope and pray that such declarations are simply foolhardy hyperbole.
In any case, onward and forward.
Augustine's, City of God, Nostradamus' quatrains, the Mayan calendar, various so-called new religious and political movements as well as modern movie manufactured magic have all in some way left either temporary or indelible marks upon the human psyche that both motivate and mystify.
Sadly, on the human level, at least, it would appear that real insight into patterns, principles and guidelines for the purpose of possible better outcomes have remained elusive, despite various individual best efforts whether collectively co-opted or simply, cleverly marketed.
It is hard to be fully human while also being totally happy.
Perhaps it is impossible.
However, as even our animal cousins somehow know, instinctively, inherently, social interaction generates ever more interaction leading to creative adaptations that often astound as well as excite.
Some call such things "love" or even "God" while most organic organisms simply move along their excited way within the greater whole presently enveloping it.
Witness the history of our mammalian cousin, the large whales (cetaceans), as one example of intelligent design and/or creative adaptation gone both forward and backwards.
How to explain such apparently logical, yet epochal and monumental change, except that it happened?
Meanwhile, some say the challenges of adaptation (or "evolution") are so few these days that human beings have simply stopped "evolving" (or put another way: growing).
I hope and pray that such declarations are simply foolhardy hyperbole.
In any case, onward and forward.
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